Jiy'lc^ 


[Ho'jgE  Bill,  No.  230.] 

HOUSE  OF  R^BPRESENTATIVES,  November  26,  186  J.— Read 
first  Hni!  seconi  times?,  made  special  order  after  Currency  Bill,  and 
ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Lyon,  from  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means.] 


^  BILL 

To  be  entitled  **Aa  Act  to  amend  An  Act  to  provide  revenue  from 
commodities  imported  from  foreign  countries,'"  approved  May 
2l3t,   18G4. 

1  Section  1.   The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 

2  enact,  That  the  first  section  of  the  act  above  recited  be  amended 

3  80  that  the  duty  imposed  by  the  same  on  goods,  products,  wares, 

4  and  merchandise,  imported   from  abroad    for    the   Confederate 

5  Stales,  shall,  after  the  passage  of  this  act,   be  as  follows  :     On 

6  all    articles  enumerated   in    schedule  A  of    said  act,  fifty  per 

7  centum  ;  on  all  articles  enumerated   in    schedule  B,    forty  per 

8  centum  ;  on  all  articles  enumerated  in  schedule  C,  thirty  per 

9  centum  ;^n  all  articles  enumerated  in  schedule  D,  twenty  per 

10  centum  ;  on   all   articles   enumerated   in    schedule    E,    ten  per 

11  centum:     Provided^  That  nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  bo 

12  construed  to   impose  any  duty  on  articles  now  admitted  duty 


2 

13  free  under  acts  passed  since  the  passage  of  the  said  act  of  May 

14  21st,    1S61. 

1         Sec.  2.  That   the   article   of    salt,  in  schedule  F,  be  trans- 
3    ferred  to  schedule  G,  so  as  to  be  admitted  free  of  duty. 


